Saturday, December 31, 2011

I have been following this "2012 Year of Smalls Blog" since its inception and thought I'd give this first "assignment" a go.

Happily I finished stitching these in the last three days and finished them last night. Maybe it might inspire some of you to do some over one stitching...as this really turned out gorgeous. I'm tickled pink over it.

"Poinsettia House"

stitched one over one on 25 ct. Lugana Country French Mocha

stitched with DMC and Crescent Colours as charted

I kept thinking that the urn of poinsettias would be gorgeous as an oval ornament so I stitched one for each of my daughters:

"Sister Ornaments"

stitched on 28 ct. mystery linen

And here is a photo of all three...I thought it was funny the size differences:

﻿Thank you to Laura for allowing me to join in the fun! I can't wait for our next "assignment"!

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Here is the first project for the year of smalls!!! How exciting! This is a great project for this time of year as it is such a lovely Christmas stitch!

This lovely design was selected by Linda M. who lives in Morris, IL. She has been an avid stitcher for many years and I will ask her to chime in with some thoughts during this month. We are announcing each month's small on the 15th day of the month before that small goes "live" so that you can gather your supplies and be stitching during the month in which that small is the selection.

I was worried that this was a bit of a large small, but you could always just stitch the poinsettia and that would be a lovely ornament.

As a gentle reminder, the Inspired Needle has this design all kitted up for you (very cutely, I might add!!). You will receive the chart, fabric and the called for floss all for $30.00.

Well, away we go!! This is so exciting and now we will all have something to look forward to on the 15th day of each month. A surprise every month!!!

Please feel free to chime in with any comments and thoughts. If you would like to be able to post pictures and posts on this blog just shoot me an e-mail at duetabode@comcast.net and I will get you set up!!

I am so ready to go with some smalls. I was so excited this morning thinking it was the 15th., and I would be happily stitching away this afternoon on some new little piece! Wrong.....
Another neat thing about smalls, is that if you get a little bored with something big that you've been working on, a small will get you away for a few hours. I say hours rather than days as I keep my hours totaled on every piece that I do. Starting something new is so refreshing, and being a smaller piece, you won't be away from your bigger projects for long.
See everyone tomorrow!

Contributors

Why Smalls?

Like me, I am sure that you have two tons of samplers to stitch. Sometimes it can be overwhelming to have so many big projects to work on.

I was daydreaming about having a basket of pin cushions and ornaments one day. Then, being the nerd that I am, I declared that 2012 would be the Year of Smalls!

Then I took it a step further. Wouldn't it be fun to get us all whipped up into a frenzy of smalls???

So, here is the scoop, every month on the 15th I will announce a new small that we can all ooh and ahh over and stitch together!!!

I conspired with my LNS owner, Cathy, of Inspired Needle and she has kindly agreed to have the charts available at her store and she is even going to kit them up!! So, you can either order just the chart or the whole kit and kaboodle from Inspired Needle in Lemont, Illinois.

Needless to say I am just thrilled and I hope that the year of smalls will catch on and become just as exciting for you too!